We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital.
Evidence suggests that credit constraints have recently become important for schooling and …

Spanning over four decades, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is the world's
longest running household panel survey. The resulting data archive presents research …

Taking out student loans to assist with the costs of postsecondary schooling in the US has
become the norm in recent decades. The debt burden young adults acquire during the …

We study how the recent housing boom and bust affected college enrollment during the
2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, which improved labor market …

Using 4 decades of variation in the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), we
estimate the impact of exposure to EITC expansions in childhood on education and …

We study the link between market forces, cross-sectional inequality, and intergenerational
mobility. Emphasizing complementarities in the production of human capital, we show that …

Prior research on trends in educational inequality has focused chiefly on changing gaps in
educational attainment by family income or parental occupation. In contrast, this contribution …

A growing number of students are working while in college and to a greater extent. Using
nationally representative data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel
Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' …

The Great Recession heightened a growing conflict in the United States between expanding
enrollments in postsecondary education and contracting public budget support. Weak labor …